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Quotes About Duty

Why is the Army different from the rest of society?" he once asked a visitor. "Training is part of the answer, but there is more. It comes, in the end, from a feeling of responsibility. Young men pick this up, in good schools or in the Army. A lieutenant will say that he wants to repay what he has been given, that he wants to serve. The Army is very different from the rest of the country.
~ Steve Coll
But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they're doing anything less than that, they're not men.
~ Steve Harvey
Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential. Spells MARINE
~ Steven Burgauer
Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.
~ Steven Erikson
Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.
~ Steven Erikson
It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
~ James Carville
I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
~ Zac Brown
When the law says you're entitled to an attorney, it doesn't mean you're entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn't do his job.
~ Pete Gallego
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
~ Nina Garcia
I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.
~ Penny Junor
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
~ Bill Frist
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
~ Jeff Merkley
Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
I know people like Jon Snow a lot.
~ Richard Madden
I've got to say I'm a Jon Snow guy for sure.
~ Steve Kazee
different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something
~ Michael Shaara
General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.
~ Michael Shaara
Negr?žtamai pasitrauk?, sekmadienio nakt? gav?s atleidim?, karaliaus – žvaigždininko s?nus, žiaurus penktasis Jud?jos prokuratorius raitelis Poncijus Pilotas
~ Michail Bulgakov
I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
~ Michel de Montaigne
But we must not (as we do every day) give the name of duty to an inward bitter harshness born of self-interested passion, nor that of courage to malicious and treacherous dealings. What they call zeal is their propensity to wickedness and violence: it is not the cause which sets them ablaze but self-interest: they stoke up war not because it is just but because it is war.
~ Michel de Montaigne
İnsan?n doÄŸuÅŸunu görmekten herkes kaçar, ama ölümünü görmeÄŸe hep koÅŸa koÅŸa gideriz. İnsan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z, ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz. İnsan? yaparken gizlenip utanmak bir ödev, onu öldürmesini bilmekse birçok erdemleri içine alan bir ÅŸereftir.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Stay, he said abruptly. Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me, and if my own fear is not strong enough to keep me from my duty, yours will only grieve me, girl. It will give me guilt and no rest, but it won't preserve my life.
~ Michelle Sagara West